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Mike Bracco
What are your biggest Social Media pet peeves? One of mine are people who use a tinyurl or other shortened URL as their Twitter link. You?
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People who use the term "Social Media" - Blake
I'll probably think of more throughout the day, but I hate it when people purposely put misleading images in the middle of their youtube videos and it's used as the thumbnail - Cass
@Blake what term would you use instead of "Social Media"? - Aline Ohannessian
Blake: I bet you also love the term "Social Graph" haha - Mike Bracco
1) Tacking the term "social" onto everything 2) Hyping (as opposed to facts) 3) Nonsensical trends & memes 4) Pointless joke posts (especially on Digg) 5) Baseless bashing 6) Poor spelling/grammar in FB statuses 7) On FriendFeed, pointless posts by prominent people that get liked by 50 other users and clutter my Home Feed 8) On FB, no tags or captions in pics 9) Using Twitter as a copy of a blog instead of for original posts 9) Most people who call themselves "internet marketers" or "SEO experts", both of which I consider to be bogus professions for the most part... more to come - LANjackal
Have you guys ever tried www.lunch.com? It doesn't have any of the problems 1-9 that LANjackal said and I completely agree! I HATE it when you have a constant stream of nonsensical 13-year olds posting jabs to each other, often misspelled jabs. It's a combo of Yelp and Wikipedia, so you get quality reviews on stuff you want to check out by people that share similar interests with you. It's pretty cool and you can share your reviews you write there on any of your other sites (I LOVE getting more exposure for less work, partly because I'm lazy and partly because....I'm lazy LOL!). - DJ Evoke
Thanks, but a look at the top tags on the site tells me there's not much there I'd be into anyway - LANjackal from IM
Adding "Please retweet!" to end of tweet. - Bruce Colthart
+1 ^ - LANjackal from IM
@LANjackal- you're not into Music? There's also a TON of Star Wars stuff on there...Bruce- I KNOW! That annoys me like no other...hello?!?!? If I like it, I'll RT it on my own, I don't need you to tell me LOL! - DJ Evoke
When people submit those "This is why I love Digg" stories to Digg - Cass
Also: Inaccurate Digg submissions: people who title their submissions misleadingly in a manner that doesn't agree with what the link itself says - LANjackal from IM
Tweeting/FB updating about every mundane detail of your life...NO ONE CARES! - DJ Evoke
@ Clark....Sorry, I don't care about someone going to the gym, taking a shit, waking up...They should be for sharing info on movies/restaurants, etc that they just ate at and liked or info on upcoming shows, or sharing music, etc. I don't mind if it's every once in a while, a nice good morning and maybe I'm soo tired but, I just don't care about hearing the mundane details of someone's life every hour on the hour....I just woke up....Now I'm going to the gym...Just had coffee...Now I'm at work...Now I'm going to the bathroom....Oh, look there's Jenny....I just said hi to Jenny...I'm going to eat...I'm going to bed....blah blah blah - DJ Evoke
@DJ Evoke, I think it could get annoying to hear about peoples' bowel movements, but that's kinda how twitter/FB started. Other uses kinda just developed after people started seeing it as a platform for something more than just a way to share what you ate for lunch. Though, there are some people (family, friends) where I want to see random, "purposeless" updates. - Cass
I deal with annoying FB statuses by checking them via Digsby's FB chat feature only. That shows only the people who're online and is a lot more manageable. + it allows me to use the site without actually having to be on it - LANjackal from IM
dealing with spammers and trolls :( - Shane
@LANjackal- thanks SO much for that suggestion- I'm going to look into it! @Cassidy, you're right- I want to see the random BS updates from friends and family, just not complete strangers that I could care less about...I know that sounds harsh but, once you belong to a couple of these things it gets tedious to scroll through. - DJ Evoke
DJ Evoke and Cassidy: You might (or probably not :) be interested in two fascinating projects built around Twitter and bowel movements - LOL - http://twishitter.com/ and http://gizmodo.com/5259381... - Mike Bracco
Hyves. - ˈpɛbə
Too many apps to try out, too few people to try them out with - Steve Joseph
tiny urls, multiple retweets, hashtags in the middle of sentences - Sivan Mozes
using any social media tag which I do. Only I use it and most of my visitor don't know what is that. - Arafat Hossain Piyada
people who complain about the way other people use social media. - Laura Norvig
baseless bashing and the profusion of FB poke/tickle/hug/heart/kiss/kick/kidnap/smack/thwack/bleep apps (disclaimer: I'm addicted to the Zynga and Zyngalike games, so I probably tick some people off) - MiniMage, enterRUPPted
@LANjackal - add 'Social Media Evangelist' to #9 of your list. - Andrew Eglinton
I hate memes and animated gifs. Retweets too. - Paul Grav
Funny that you asked. I am annoyed by my own posts that get duplicated or posted more than twice because of the other sites that I aggregated(?) with other social sites. FF for example. I attached a lot of my social networks to it, then a post hits twitter, then twitter hits FB, then FB hits my blogs and you got the idea. Then my twitter and friendfeed end up receiving and reposting the same post that originated from soup.io for example. Any suggestion? - RON08 owned by jd again
Sites that limit the No. of characters in your password and won't let you add special characters $%&#@ - Friendfeed's Francisco
Facebook mail from groups. (fan pages are better than groups as you don't need to spam people's mail boxes to get a message across, you simply use the status for all to see, so with that, consider deleting your group and move it all to a fan page instead) :D peace. - Friendfeed's Francisco
Mine, when people keep on posting advertisiment without getting involved in the conversation. - Abad A. Perez
I use Facebook more for old friends and relatives and not really for business. To avoid out-and-out blocking certain "close" blowhards, I'd like to see a button that says "Someone who generally cares about you thinks you should shut the ___ up for a while." so I can anonymously give my opinion of their content. - Bruce Colthart
you can actually do that by removing people from your home newsfeed in Facebook - LANjackal from IM